Environmental upsides of smart meters

Nowadays, consumers and utility companies can agree that smart meters provide benefits such as time-of-use billing, accurate measurement, and elimination of a meter reader's monthly visit. But do smart meters provide tangible benefits for the environment? Not all agree on this. This article discusses how smart meter helps utility companies to monitor energy usage. That monitoring data then allows the utility to work with consumers to reduce energy usage and integrate various sources of renewable energy. When that happens, the environment wins.

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Originally published by Maxim Integrated Products at www.maxim-ic.com as "Environmental Benefits of Smart Meters".